Chapter 1. Estimating Efficiency in the Presence of Extreme Outliers: A Logistic-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model with Application to Highway Maintenance Costs in England -- Chapter 2. Alternative User Costs, Productivity and Inequality in US Business Sectors -- Chapter 3. On the Allocation...

Arbeit als Tätigkeit -- Kopfarbeit in der modernen Arbeitswelt -- Konfiguration von new employment relationships -- Personalabbaupläne und der Verlust von Humankapital -- Tools in der Management- und Beratungsarbeit -- Netzwerkförmige Tertialisierung und triangularisierte Beschäftigung --...

Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über die Entstehung eines Berufsethos, des Anspruchs der Gesellschaft an den Einzelnen und die Möglichkeit der persönlichen Entwicklung im aktuellen Wirtschaftsgefüge. Der Gegenstand der Betrachtung ist der Zusammenhang zwischen dem Individuum und dem...

Introduction: Motivation and Research Setting -- Foundations: Conceptual Background -- Study 1: Supporting Participants in Creative Processes with Persuasive Technology -- Study 2: Categorizing Persuasive Technology for Participatory Design -- Study 3: Modelling and Creating Persuasive...

Part I: Applying Particle Swarm Optimization to Portfolio Optimization -- 1. Utility: Theories and Models -- 2. Portfolio Optimization -- 3. Behavioral Portfolio Theory -- 4. A Comparative Study on PSO with Other Metaheuristic Methods -- 5. Mathematical Model of Particle Swarm Optimization:...

This book provides an essential introduction to Stochastic Programming, especially intended for graduate students. The book begins by exploring a linear programming problem with random parameters, representing a decision problem under uncertainty. Several models for this problem are presented,...

Chapter 1. Omni-channel operations: Challenges, opportunities, and models -- Chapter 2. New Functions of Physical Stores in the Age of Omnichannel Retailing -- Chapter 3. Omni-Channel Assortment Planning -- Chapter 4. Returns Policies and Smart Salvaging: Benefiting From a Multi-Channel World --...

Chapter 1. My Career and Contributions -- Chapter 2. Understanding the Weber Location Paradigm -- Chapter 3. A general framework for local search applied to the continuous p-median problem -- Chapter 4. Big Triangle Small Triangle Method for the Weber Problem on the Sphere -- Chapter 5. Integer...

Chapter 1. Basic concept of epidemic-logistics -- Chapter 2. Epidemic dynamics modeling and analysis -- Chapter 3. Mixed distribution mode for emergency resources in anti-bioterrorism system -- Chapter 4. Epidemic logistics with demand information updating Model I: Medical resource is enough --...